by Cheri D. Molter | Apr 8, 2022 | Cumberland, New Hanover, Union affiliation
Submitted by Ed Gibson; Vetted and edited by Cheri Todd Molter One morning, while sitting at coffee with several other Cape Fear Round Table members, I heard Bill Jayne mention that there was a member of the 147th Pennsylvania buried at the Wilmington National...
by CCW | Jul 31, 2021 | New Hanover, Reconstruction
SUBMITTED BY: Anne Russell (edited by Cheri Todd Molter) The following is the transcription of the letter that was published in the Lower Cape Fear Historical Society, Inc. Bulletin (Vol. XLVI No. 3, November 2002) (Photographs of the original letters are below;...
by CCW | Jul 19, 2021 | New Hanover, This Month's Featured Story, Union affiliation
SUBMITTED BY: Baylor Hicks; article written by Melissa De Witte; excerpt edited by Cheri Todd Molter A Note from Baylor Hicks: Bill Gould (William Gould IV) was one of my professors at Stanford Law School. I knew that his great-grandfather was a contraband in the...
by CCW | Jul 19, 2021 | Confederate affiliation, New Hanover
AUTHOR: JC Knowles; edited and vetted by Cheri Todd Molter and Hallie Smith One of the most successful vessels to run the blockade off the coast of North Carolina during the American Civil War was the Giraffe, later called the Robert E. Lee, owned by the Confederate...
by CCW | Apr 21, 2021 | Antebellum era, New Hanover
AUTHOR: JC Knowles (edited and vetted by Cheri Todd Molter) Nancy “Nance” Adams Martin, the daughter of businessman and ship owner Silas Martin and his wife, Margaret Crawford Martin, took ill and died while at sea with her father. In 1857, Silas took...
by CCW | Feb 23, 2021 | Confederate affiliation, Cumberland, New Hanover, Pender
SUBMITTED BY: JC Knowles (edited and vetted by Cheri Todd Molter) Samuel A’Court Ashe was born on September 13, 1840 at Wrightsville Sound, near Wilmington, North Carolina. His parents were William Shepperd Ashe and Sarah Ann Green. During his youth, Ashe lived on...
